Richard M. Kearney | |
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| Born | 1954 (age 69–70) Cork, Ireland |
| Education | University of Paris X: Nanterre (PhD), McGill University (MA), University College Dublin (BA) |
| Notable work | The Wake of the Imagination (1998), Poetics of Imagining (1998), On Stories (2001), Debates in Continental Philosophy (2004), Anatheism (2011) |
| Spouse | Anne Bernard |
| Awards | Election to the Royal Irish Academy (1998) |
| School | Continental philosophy, hermeneutics, phenomenology |
| Institutions | Boston College |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Ricoeur |
| Other academic advisors | Charles Taylor |
Main interests | hermeneutics, phenomenology, philosophy of religion, aesthetics |
Notable ideas | Diacritical hermeneutics, Carnal hermeneutics,[1] 'Anatheism' [citation needed] |
| Website | richardmkearney |
Richard Kearney (/ˈkɑːrni/; born 1954) is an Irish philosopher and public intellectual specializing in contemporary continental philosophy. He is the Charles Seelig Professor in Philosophy at Boston College and has taught at University College Dublin, the Sorbonne, the University of Nice, and the Australian Catholic University. He is the author of 23 books on European philosophy and literature (including two novels and a volume of poetry) and has edited or co-edited over 20 more. He was formerly a member of the Arts Council of Ireland, the Higher Education Authority of Ireland and chairman of the Irish School of Film at University College Dublin. He is also a member of the Royal Irish Academy. As a public intellectual in Ireland, he was involved in drafting a number of proposals for a Northern Irish peace agreement (1983, 1993, 1995). He has presented five series on culture and philosophy for Irish and British television and broadcast extensively on the European media. He is currently international director of the Guestbook Project.